Paris is burning > Disorder is the brutal, undeniable verdict on decades of liberal and progressive rule

 

Will Europe wake up and stop at the edge of a liberal abyss?

As Paris burns, the EU establishment’s failures invite a political revolt that could reshape the future of the West

Published 20 Oct, 2026 16:49 | Updated 20 Oct, 2026 17:50

By Ladislav Zemánek, non-resident research fellow at China-CEE Institute and expert of the Valdai Discussion Club

Protest in central Paris, France on October 17, 2026 in Paris, France ©  Firas Abdullah / Anadolu via Getty Images

Paris is burning again. Violent riots are tearing through French cities as protests over rising living costs descend into chaos. Looting. Arson. More than 2,400 arrests. Dozens of officers injured. Historic town halls torched. Streets devastated in Paris, Limoges, and beyond. While leftist protesters chant about the “cost of living,” flames rise from neighborhoods that once stood as beacons of French liberty and culture.

Paris riots: The verdict on progressive rule

This disorder is the brutal, undeniable verdict on decades of liberal and progressive rule: the project has failed completely. Mass migration is not simply a generous humanitarian act. It is a deliberate security threat. It is the engine of the left’s cherished dream of erasing European civilization from within – something many conservatives call the ‘Great Replacement’, and many liberals, a conspiracy theory.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the firebrand capitalizing on these riots, has long appeared to despise the “white and stale” France of tradition, faith, and national pride. He fights for a “New France” – young, urban, multicultural, queer, and woke. He embodies the argument that the Western European far left is no friend of Europe. It is its enemy.

In Spain, socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has moved to legalize over one million illegal immigrants in his country, granting them rights to roam the EU at will. The move has provoked fury, including within European political circles. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has recently warned that, if the tide continues, Central European nations may have to “defend our borders” and deploy an army on the German frontier.

The Ceuta crisis – in which some 80,000 migrants surged into the Spanish enclave only a couple of months ago – is another stark reminder of the pressures facing Europe’s borders.

Sánchez does not stand alone. He represents the broader Brussels euro-bureaucracy: billions in EU funds flow to media organizations and NGOs promoting mass migration, while the same bureaucracy tightens Digital Services Act rules and advances the European Democracy Shield, suppressing conservative voices and the integrity of democratic competition.

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Rubio’s vision: Reclaiming the Western civilization

Marco Rubio, America’s Secretary of State, saw the challenge during his early October European tour, which included Iceland, Greece, and Portugal. Defense and energy security talks were vital, but his real message came in Athens, beneath the shadow of the Acropolis. Rubio called for a revival of the West. He demanded greatness, self-confidence, civilizational vitality, pride in Christianity, and nationalism, and an “unapologetic pursuit of national power.”

He criticized transnational bureaucracies, mass migration, the massive welfare state that he argued had bred decline, the “climate cult,” and open borders. In February, he had made the argument even more starkly at the Munich Security Conference: the “end of history” and the triumph of liberal democracy? No. A foolish idea. The West, he argued, must build a new Western century.

And the Trump administration is not just talking. It is acting. Funding is being redirected from globalist and woke agendas towards conservative voices, think tanks, and interests across Europe and beyond. If America is prepared to push back against the EU’s accelerating drift towards demographic replacement, political authoritarianism, and economic insanity, this is not simply interference; it is the strongest possible counterpressure – precisely what Europe’s patriots need right now.

Donald Trump was right. Europe needs regime change. Europe needs a conservative revolution.

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The cost of liberal failure

The riots, the terror, the spread of antisemitism across Western Europe, the destruction of great monuments, and centuries of culture – Ceuta and Paris stand as stark reminders. The liberal establishment is impotent. It cannot even manage its own cities. It has turned European streets into war zones and its capitals into symbols of surrender.

Let us be clear about the stakes. For centuries, Europe stood at the heart of Western civilization. Now, its pillars are rotting under the weight of progressive dogma. Open borders erode national cohesion. The welfare state invites dependency instead of self-reliance. The climate cult distracts from real dangers. Bureaucracies in Brussels regulate everything except the influx that is changing Europe’s demographics permanently.

Today’s Europe bears witness to the growth of parallel societies in cities from Paris to Stockholm. Crime statistics indicate that migrant cohorts are disproportionately involved in sexual assaults, terrorism, and gang violence. Integration failures breed resentment. Cultural clashes erupt into the very riots we see today. Antisemitism has surged: synagogues attacked, Jewish communities targeted. These are symptoms of a demographic transformation that left-wing elites frame as “humanism.”

Yet, amid this despair, hope flickers. Patriots are rising. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally has gained ground with policies rooted in sovereignty, borders, and family values. In Germany, the AfD is growing stronger. Across the continent, millions of ordinary Europeans share the same unease: our ancestors built cathedrals, universities, and statehood. Will we allow globalists and progressives to consign that legacy to history?

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The conservative revolution: Europe’s choice and the new Western century

Marco Rubio’s Athens address captured this challenge. He reminded the world that the West is at an inflection point. It can atrophy, serve hostile interests, or decline into irrelevance.

A return to Christian roots strengthens families and communities. Healthy nationalism fosters loyalty and shared sacrifice. Sovereignty restores democratic control over people’s destiny. These are not inherently divisive principles; they are the very pillars that once made the West great.

Europe’s achievements were not accidental. They flowed from the interplay of faith, reason, and ordered liberty. Replace those foundations with open borders and wokeness, and you risk producing the Paris we see today: burning buildings, paralyzed cities, and eroding trust. The liberal establishment has demonstrated that it cannot cope with the challenges confronting it.

Rubio’s message is clear: build a new Western century. That means stronger combat capabilities and fighting spirit, and policies that put nation-states and citizens first. Trump’s America is already acting. Europe’s best interests demand the same: counterpressure against globalist networks and liberal elites.

The riots have spoken. Ceuta showed the southern front. Paris showed the domestic front. Western Europe needs to wake up and realize that the liberal experiment is over. And so is the time for complacency. The battle for sovereignty, identity, and civilizational future has begun. The question is no longer whether Europe must change, but whether its leaders will find the courage to lead that change.

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The Islamization of Europe > Is it too late to save Europe from a return to the Dark Ages? Anti-migrant riots breaking out in Spain and elsewhere

 

Will Islam Subjugate Europe?

Is it too late? Or is there some small hope?

Jul 14, 2025 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald28 Comments

A disturbing report from the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti, on Islam’s latest triumphs in subduing the Infidels in Europe, can be found here: 

How Islam will subjugate Europe

by Giulio Meotti, Israel National News, July 11, 2025

“Islamists march through the streets of Berlin, protected by the democracy they deeply despise. They call for a caliphate, they dream of a theocracy. And to all those who don’t want to believe it: try holding the same demonstration with the same signs in Cairo, Baghdad, Riyadh, Amman, Beirut, or Abu Dhabi.”

Ahmed Mansour captures the terrible paradox of European democracy.

That is, European democracy is being manipulated in order to bring about the most undemocratic, indeed despotic, rule of Islam.

Islamists call for the establishment of a caliphate during the demonstration in Berlin.

Berlin police wanted to ban the demonstration, but a court overturned the ban. Caliphate supporters were then allowed, separated by gender, to call for the establishment of theocracy in Europe….

The Caliphate is no longer unstoppable [sic; he means “stoppable”] in Europe, simply because population composition and birth rates have long since revealed their irreversible reality. Accelerated incredibly by high immigration, it seems unstoppable, even desired and promoted by a policy that attributes a disastrous Nazi gene to the Germans and hopes for a better East than the West….

Alexander Kissler sums it up well: “A country that tolerates repeated calls for an Islamic caliphate is not tolerant, but decadent.”

And we know how decadent civilizations end.

And yet, is Meotti not missing something that gives us hope?

There are signs that Europeans have had enough of the Muslims who by the tens of millions are now living in their midst. Many are waking up to the Islamic threat, and are determined not to let those whom the late Oriana Fallaci called “the sons of Allah” to take over the advanced civilization of the West.

The parties that demand an end to immigration, by which is meant Muslim immigration, are everywhere rising in popularity: in France, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella’s National Rally, in Germany, Alice Weidel’s Alternative für Deutschland, in the U.K., Nigel Farage’s Reform Party, in Italy, Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia, in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ Party of Freedom, are now either the largest or the second largest political parties in their respective countries.

There are more people in the media, and especially on social media, unafraid and eager to discuss the threat of a resurgent Islam. More attention is being given to the texts and teachings of Islam. People who a short while ago had never heard, much less comprehended, what such words as “jizyah,” “dhimmi,” and “hadith” mean, have now educated themselves. They know, thanks to websites such as Jihad Watch, that Muhammad had sexual intercourse with little Aisha when she was nine and he was fifty-four. They know that the Qur’an tells Muslims that they “must not take Christians or Jews as friends, for they are friends only with each other.” (5:51) They know that in the Qur’an Muslims are told that they are “the best of peoples” (3:110), while non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings.” (98:6).

Mohammed's marital consummation with little Aisha has since been the pattern for Islamic pedophiles who want to marry little girls. However, slave girls have no such rights. As long as the man doesn't smother the child, he can have sex with a slave girl at any age.

They know that a Muslim husband may “beat” his wife, albeit lightly, if he even suspects her of being disobedient. (4:34) They know from the hadith that Muhammad asked his followers to “rid him” of three of those who mocked him — Asma bint Marwan, Ka’b ibn al-Ashraf, and Abu ‘Afak, and all three were killed by those hoping to win his favor. And they did. They know that the Qur’an instructs Muslims to “smite at the necks” of Infidels (47:4). They know that Muhammad in one famous hadith proclaimed that “I have been made victorious through terror,” and in another said that “war is deceit.” This constitutes a massive mental rearmament, through education, of those who just a few years ago were dangerously innocent of Islam.

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Spain: Anti-migrant street riots break out after Muslim migrants beat 68-year-old man

Jul 14, 2025 3:00 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams17 Comments

It was (and is) only a matter of time until open-door mass migration policies began to backfire on reckless leftist governments (in Spain, the leftist coalition government is led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), and includes the hard-left Sumar party). Multitudes arriving from lawless societies will obviously bring lawlessness with them, along with cultural and religious practices that are unacceptable in the West and inconsistent with principles of human rights and equality of rights for all people.

Last year, open-door Spain said it would grant residency and work permits to some 300,000 undocumented migrants per year for the next three years. But the country’s socialism isn’t going as planned.

Agence France-Presse reported that several people were injured in a second night of violent anti-migrant riots in a Spanish town.

Groups armed with batons roamed the streets of the sleepy Murcian town of Torre Pacheco, days after a 68-year-old man was attacked and beaten up by three migrant youths from Morocco.

“One group called Deport Them Now posted a message on social media calling for attacks against people of north African origin.” Most migrants in Murcia are Moroccan.

According to GB News, “the protests bear a striking significance to those which rocked Northern Ireland just weeks ago.”

Unrest had broken out in Ballymena this time last month in response to a case involving two teenage boys accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

The riots of Ireland and Spain are also reminiscent of the UK protests after the Southport jihadist murders of children, riots that the leftist UK government ruthlessly suppressed.

Last week, the Spanish Vox party called for the mass deportation of migrants, “both recent arrivals and naturalized citizens, who fail to integrate into the Spanish society.” Vox leader Santiago Abascal specified who should be targeted for deportation, saying that “everyone who came to commit crimes, who tries to impose a foreign religion, who mistreats or demeans women, who wants to live off the work of others, and all unaccompanied minors, because minors have to be with their parents” should be made to leave.

Leftist governments who betrayed their citizens are now faced with lawlessness, clashes and citizen revolts, while the media continues to exonerate the irresponsible leaders and blame the “far right” for the chaos these leaders created.

Several people injured in second night of anti-migrant unrest in Spanish town

Agence France-Presse, July 13, 2025:

Several people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco in south-east Spain after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said.

Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for people with foreign origins, the regional newspaper La Opinión de Murcia reported.

The regional government did not say how many people were injured but stated that at least one person had been arrested over the violence.

The unrest erupted after a 68-year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on Wednesday by three young people of north African origin. The attack was filmed and put on social media.

The town hall organised a demonstration on Friday that was intended to be peaceful but where far-right elements shouted anti-migrant slogans. One group called Deport Them Now posted a message on social media calling for attacks against people of north African origin.

Spanish authorities launched an appeal for calm on Sunday in the town of 36,000 people.

The conservative head of the Murcian regional government, Fernando López Miras, said in a post on X: “Torre Pacheco must get back to normal. I understand the frustration but nothing justifies violence.”

You obviously don't understand the frustration if you think you can get back to "Normal". 

The Torre Pacheco mayor, Pedro Angel Roca Ternel, told RTVE public television: “I call on residents to be calm, for tranquillity.”…

Canadian Convulsions > Montreal Burns while Trudeau is a Swifty

 

Trudeau Parties at Taylor Swift Concert

While Muslims Riot in Montreal

Nov 24, 2024 5:00 pm By Daniel Greenfield

Feckless leaders are destroying the free world.

Western leaders sat and watched for a year while Muslim mobs and their Marxist allies terrorized Jews, shut down public events and assaulted police officers, while offering little more than toothless press releases, but Trudeau in Canada may have perfectly captured everything wrong with this mindset.

Trudeau pretending he’s still in his twenties and embracing the party scene as Muslim mobs make it clear that they intend to conquer, transform and destroy Canada perfectly encapsulates the decadence of the leftist managers of our decline.

Trudeau eventually popped up to promise consequences and accountability for the Montreal mobs. Will there be any? There haven’t been any or 14 months, not in Montreal or anywhere else. Initial condemnations of the latest outrageous act of Muslim violence are soon buried in media narratives that turn the violent perpetrators into victims, whether it’s in Gaza or in Amsterdam.

Feckless leaders are destroying the free world.

Trudeau also took time to trade Swiftie bracelets with dozens of fans. He would have known about the riots which began before the Taylor Swift concert.

His priorities are really screwed up.

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